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Problem Statement:
There’s a standard 8 x 8 checkerboard made up by 64 small squares. Each square is able to combine with others squares to make other squares of different sizes. Our job is to find out how many squares there’s in total. Once you get all the number of squares get all the number of squares and feel confident with your answer you next explain how to find the number of squares on any size checkerboard. You will know you have the answer when no matter how what size board you have you can give a clear description of to easily compute the total number of squares. So basically what you’re doing is finding the total number of squares in a 8 x 8 checkerboard and pretty much finding an equation on how to find the total number of squares on any size board.
Process:
Alright so how do you find this answer? It’s not as hard as you think it is. Although it is kind of tricky on how to get the answer. What my first concern was, “This is going to take forever. I’m never going to get done.” I honestly thought I was going to get the wrong answer. So my first method was counting all the squares. I knew this was going to take forever. Then I literally was so close to giving up until I looked at...

...Tying the Knot is a documentary that chronicles the issues of same sex marriages. It puts into perspective the question of what happens to a surviving spouse of a same sex marriage after their partner dies. The documentary offers emotional, as well as the financial troubles both men and women face as gay widows and widowers because of the laws in regards to marriage. It also places a human face on the struggle for equal rights and offers information from the past and into the present day meaning of civil marriage.
The documentary places emphasize on two couples who both have lost their partners and have been denied their share of what their partner left behind. Mickie Mashburn, a Tampa police officer whose fellow cop spouse, Lois Marrero died in the line of duty when she was fatally shot by a robber in 2001, fights to receive Lois's pension as part of a benefits package for surviving spouses. Mashburn stays confident as she and her supporters make a case before a pension board. The hearings are always held in small, crowded rooms, where opposing sides appear to be sitting elbow to elbow and no one's voice is ever raised in anger. What I found interesting where the home videos that were shown, where they show the couple 10 years earlier, happy and full of emotion during their commitment ceremony. What I found ironic was that Marrero's sister was there for the ceremony but back ten years later to contest Mashburn's claim to her sister's...

...11/15/09
Class G
Lauren McCarthy
Pow 3: Eight Bags of Gold
Problem Statement
A king divides his gold among 8 trusted people. One of the trusted people is selling his gold. The king wants to find the thief but only has a pan balance.
Being conservative, he wants to use the pan balance as few times as possible. What is the least number of trials he will have to do in order to guarantee
that he has found the lightest bag?
Process
To solve the problem, I accumulated the least number of trials into a table to look for a pattern.
of Bags Least
of Gold of Trials
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
1
1
222222
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
4
29
30
4
4
Tallies
1 vs. 1
1 vs. 1 r .1
11 vs. 11 1 vs. 1
11 vs. 11 r .1 1 vs. 1
111 vs. 111
1 vs. 1 r .1
111 vs. 111 r. 1 1 vs. 1 r .1
111 vs. 111 either 11 vs. 11
1 vs. 1 OR 111 vs. 111
1 vs. 1 r .1
A similar pattern continues throughout the table
Their must always be an equal amount of bags on each side, such as :
5 vs. 5
6 vs. 6
6 vs. 6
As the number of bags increased, I started to discover a patter
and realized that the "transition" numbers as I call it, such as 10
which requires 3 trials rather than 2, were key in finding a pattern.
The change from 3 to 4 trials occured because the tallies became :
11 111 1111 vs. 11 111 1111 with 10 bags left over,...

...those out I did the side pieces cutting a coloring both pieces. After finishing the drawing and cutting I then taped the side pieces together same thing with the top pieces leaving the top with an open space and they bottom having a bottom pieces. The finale thing I did was color the shapes (hopefully not having the dame colors).
Where would you use tessellation shapes at that was the question I had running though my head when I was doing this and I thought about Classrooms they have different shapes on rugs the wall. Even quilting shops use tessellation shape to help them quilt things together.
I really liked doing this POW I think it really helped me realize that shapes can be about used for anything. I did but my write up off and I’m paying the prices by trying to get caught up on everything. But I did really enjoy working with my hands for this POW.
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...Kirkpatrick
IMP 2POW2; Tying the Knots
Problem Statement:
A couple wants gto get married but to do so a ritual must be completed. This ritual includes 6 strings. The ends of each of these strings must be tied to one another on both ends. If the strings make one large loop they can get married, anything else however will result in them having to wait.
The problem is whether or not hey will get married. The best way to find this answer is to find combinations of diffierent loops. Then find the probability of getting only one big loop. Then find the probability fo all other combinations.
Process:
When I first read the problem I began to think that there would only be 3 combinations for all of the strings together. Once I began to work it out then I realized that the top strings don't even matter, because no matter how you start out its random and the bottom ones haven't been tied. So now that I only had the bottom ones to work with it was a lot easier to figure out. After a while I found that there were three circles for the strings and started to work them out.
To keep track of my results I listed them below and would number the combinations startin at one so I new which would work. I did this until I came up with my chances and used them for my final answer.
1+4 2+3 5+6=no-2
1+4 2+6 5+3=1
1+4 2+5 6+3=1
1+5 2+3 4+6=1
1+5...

...The Knot was formed in December 1995 by David Liu, the co-founder and CEO with a dream of building the country’s number-one wedding resource online. The core management team started with Daivd Liu (CEO), Carley Roney (VP of creative development), Michael Wolfson (VP of new business development) and Rob Fassino (VP of marketing). David Liu and Carley Roney co-founded RunTime, Inc. which was a CD-Rom development company. Wolfson and Fassino were the founders of Digital Media Division and later partnered with RunTime to create a very successful project. This planted the seed for them working together in the future and creating a successful media business based on past experience. The team eventually grew to encompass Russ Casenhiser (Director of operations), Becky Casenhiser (Director of marketing) and Eric Herz (Director of advertising sales). The management team was very well rounded and a strength of The Knot; however they were missing a key component in a financial expert.
The management team was looking for a niche market that offered high advertising revenue, stable demand and stagnant competition. After extensive research they came up with a business model that would cater to the niche market of the wedding industry but operate initially online, and then would grow to encompass more traditional means providing comprehensive bridal content and services. The Knot would also later grow to include a gift shop, a registry,...

...The Knot
Entrepreneurial Finance
Wouter Buijze: 6172466
Tijmend de Vries: 5947472
Gijs Derkzen:
Teacher: Vladimir Vladimirov
Critical success factors
According to Sahlman, the success of entrepreneurial ventures, such as The Knot, is dependent on four critical success factors, namely the people, the opportunity, the deal and the context. Each of these factors is dynamic and the entrepreneur must constantly reevaluate and adjust the four factors to create value.
People
The category people include the key players of the entrepreneurial venture. Within this category, the strengths and weaknesses and the experience of the people involved is critical. The entrepreneur has to determine if something is missing in the team, thus if people should be added or replaced. The Knot’s management team consists of four ex New York University’s Film School students. All of them are experienced entrepreneurs. First, Liu and Roney are co-founders of the CD-ROM development company RunTime Inc. Pervious, Liu was an experienced manager and Roney spent six years as creative director and editor. Second, Wolfson and Fassino are founders of the Digital Media Division for Margeotes Fertitta + Partners. Before, Wolfson was founder of a creative production company and Fassino has experience in the advertising industry. The two different companies successfully collaborated at the Sotheby’s project. The four partners emphasize the potential of their...